noelbynature started this blog as a Singaporean student on a tight budget hoping to chronicle his overseas culinary experience while getting away with the finer things in life. Then it expanded to a circle of Singaporean and Malaysian friends who were studying in Melbourne, Australia. Now, we've grown to be a community of international students living abroad. These are our recipes and we hope you like them.
We still would rather not eat indomee every day.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

If you ever take a trip through Terry Pratchett's Discworld, you might encounter two characters: Leonard of Quirm and BS Johnson. Better yet, you might encounter stuff they've made. Both of them are inventors, in loose senses of the word.

Leonard of Quirm is a caricature of of Leonardo da Vinci. Eg, one of his most famous works is the Mona Ogg, whose teeth follow you around the room no matter where you may go. He possesses a brilliant mind for invention and an accidental knack for creating weapons of war with only remarkable dearth in talent for naming his inventions. One has only to refer to his submarine, or as he calls it, The Going Under The Water Safely Device.

On the other end of the spectrum, Bergholy Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson has the dubious honor of being a legendarily incompetent landscaper and architect, having created without showing any signs of having the necessary basic grasp of engineering and mathematics. His most famous works are situated on the Ankh Morpork palace grounds: the garden maze so tiny that visitors get lost looking for it and the trout lake 150 yards long and 1 inch wide.

which brings me to this blog: i don't know if it's a Leonard of Quirm or a Bloody Stupid Johnson. I'm going back to Melbourne for my last year of study and i thought it would be a god way to document life as a student on a budget. Stayed tuned to read how i make ends meet. And how i stretch my dollar, especially in the culinary section. Really, i think this is just going to turn out to become a recipe blog for myself. Why? because i had the time and an idea.